Tag Archives: windows

FireEye Mandiant Agent Installation

By | March 12, 2020

FireEye is a Cyber Security firm deal with lot many products, but the most famous product from the company is Mandiant Endpoint Agent. Mandiant was a separate company founded in 2004 which was later acquired by FireEye in 2013. Mandiant helps our organization to be prevented by various security attack. This is now a propitiatory… Read More »

Windows 2008 Server Installation (step by step)

By | March 8, 2020

Yes, I know what many of you are thinking. Why 2008 server? Well there is no straight answer for this. I was setting up 2008 server for my lab testing so thought of sharing with you. Many organization (including mine) are still using 2008 servers, perhaps this article will help them. However, Microsoft has stopped… Read More »

How to setup web page to change user’s password?

By | March 4, 2020

In small companies, generally System Administrators change User’s password on their request. But in big enterprise, it’s not possible to do in same way. As a solution, we can setup a global web page and let Users change their password by themselves. This we can do in any Windows Server, part of the domain. Let’s… Read More »

How to download “Blocked Attachment”​ by antivirus from Gmail?

By | February 22, 2020

I always work on a simple principle – “Keep the things simple”. This simple concept always helped me personally and professionally. Recently I have gone through an incident which again proved that the said concept always works. In 2014, I have worked very hard to create a web application. It took me hell lot of time,… Read More »

Common objects in Active Directory

By | February 17, 2020

I hope you all are enjoying the initial posts about Active Directory. So far we have understood the concept, installation and configuration of AD. In this post, we will discuss about the most common Active Directory objects. Many of us know what they are, let’s have a basic understanding. Users: The most common object belongs… Read More »

What is Windows Admin Center?

By | February 13, 2020

Windows Server 2019 is the latest server Operating System from Microsoft with tons of new features but among them, “Windows Admin Center”, which is really a game changer. Let’s see what’s new in WAC. It’s Free: Yes, it’s really free for valid licensed Windows Server 2019. You can also install it in licensed Windows 10… Read More »

Active Directory setup in Windows Server 2019 – Part II: Configuration

By | February 8, 2020

In last post, we have seen the installation of your first Domain Controller. Till Windows Server 2008 R2, we had a utility called “dcpromo” which installs and configure the Active Directory in one shot. After Windows Server 2012, AD can be installed through “Server Manager” only. Also it’s devided into two parts – installation and… Read More »